Priscilla (MSCOZY) reviewed on 4/29/2011

Helpful Score: 1

I really did not like this book at all. So many members are seeking a copy and I have no idea why it is so popular. I do enjoy good Latino stories but this one , yuck. All it seemed to be about was a kid who was Dominican who as a child became fat. All he seemed to think about was trying to get some girl to kiss and have sex; he was obsessed. He was quite intelligent and read a great deal. All his family and his friends talked about were girls, girls, girls and sex. They made fun of him because no girl wanted to be his girlfriend or have sex with him. Lines like, "Hey, you're Dominican. How could you not be having sex?" That is not verbatim but the gist of it was since he was Dominican, he should be a stud and screwing every girl he could.

In the book, they also went back and told about how his mother grew up in the Dominican Republic and the life she had. She did have a horrible childhood but as soon as she got boobs and a figure, all she thought about was using her body to get whatever she wanted and she liked the feel of power. Meanwhile she was doing very well in school and got a scholarship to a prestigious high school but since she was not rich and one of the "in" crowd, she hated it. She stopped going to school and got a job as a waitress/server at 14, I think. Then she falls for one of Trujillo's men, who is married and he tells her he is going to marry her and give her all kinds of fine things. Yeah, right. She gets pregnant and then things go from bad to worse. Trujillo is a dictator who ruled the D.R. with an iron fist, killing anyone who opposed him in any way.

This is a story about sex and obsessions and what can happen if you let them rule your life. My sister read it and she did not like it either.

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